Arizona bill targets transgendered for using ‘wrong’ bathroom

The Arizona House of Representatives plans to review next week a bill that would make it a crime for transgendered people who are found to use the “wrong” bathroom.

Many see it as a rebuke against the City Council of Phoenix’s passage of a protection law that would broadly outlaw discrimination against the transgendered.

Host Carmen Russell-Sluchansky spoke with Michael Silverman, director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, to discuss the proposed law.

 

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Carmen is a multimedia journalist based in Washington, DC whose work has appeared in a variety of outlets including National Geographic, NBC News, the BBC, Asia! Magazine, The China Post, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel.